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THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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Service Perfected
The Pasquotank Motor Company, Studebaker
Exclusive Dealers for Northeasern North Carolina has
procured the services of Mr. Wm. T. Swain, Jr., as
Supervisor of Service for their territory.
Mr. Swain is peculiarly qualified to take care of the
Studebaker Service problem here. He started his
career in the Automobile business in 1915 with the
Messick Motor Company of Newport News, Va.,
Studebaker dealers. Later that year he was employ
ed by the Studebaker Corp. at Detroit in the manu
facturing jdepartment for six months; then he was
employed by the Studebaker Corporation in the Ser
vice Department at Detroit until July 1918 when he
was caled to the colors. He served with the Bureau
of Aircraft Production as inspector of aeroplanes and
aeroplane motors until his discharge from the Service
May 25th. 1919.
In his new capacity as Service Manager for the
Pasquotank Motor Company he will give all his time
to the making of satisfied Studebaker owners.
PASQUOTANK
MOTOR CO.
Studebaker Dealers
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Good Coffee
' You will find it at Twiddy's. Twiddy sells
nothing but the best in groceries. His old and
successful business has been built upon that one
plus courtesy and honesty.
thing,
G. W. TWIDDY
Phone 185
So. Poindexter Street
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rnd rubbing that you do now
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And you save soap. You know
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Sat tip with the fuss and bother of
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WHAT WILL C. W. BROWN
GET OUT OF MT.LEBANON ?
Tu,f. What Worries a Lot of Folk
Who Want to Help Thi
Negro Church
ThP namDaisn to raise - $13,000 to
liquidate the mortgaged indebtedness
nf Alt. Lebanon A. mj. ,iuu wiiuvu
in this city, is lagging because the news
has gotten out that C. W. Brow, man
ager of the? campaign is to get $2,000 j
out of it. Having indorsed the cam
naitrn and urged its friends to help the
colored Methodists of Elizabeth City
to save their handsome church, this
newspaper has satisfied itself that C.
W. Brown will not get a cent of -the
money subscribed for the church and
this newspaper can not" find that the
church is committed to any scheme tc
give Brown a second mortgage on the I
church in consideration of his services
Brown expects to make $2,000 as a
result of his management of the cam
paign, but his expectations are perfect
ly l-.-g-ifim.ite. The church has. agreed
to celebrate the burning of the mort
gage if Brown succeeds in lifting it
and has agreed to let , Brown use trie j
occasion to his own profit. Brown
plans to have Dr. Robt. R. Moton, the
head of Tuskegee Institute, and a quar
tette of singers from Hampton Insti
tute to appear at the celebration and
he expects to charge the colored people
50 to 75 cents a head to hear their big
gest, blackest Negro leader make a
speach and hear their biggest Negro
ouartette sing. Brown thinks this en
tertainment will bring h im in some
thing like 2,000.
This newsnaner believes that ?1
Brown can get $2,000 out of any such
scheme he is entitled to it. It costs a
lot of money to put on a campaign tc
raise funds these days. Brown has
personally forced every cent of the ex
pense of Mt. Lebanon's ' campaign. The
church hasn't had to put up a dollar
for the hundreds of dollars worth oi
printing, advertising and postage which
Brown has been compelled to use to
get the" cause of the church before the
public. In all campaigns that this
newspaper .knows anything about, the
cost of printing, advertising, postage
and clerical expense has come out oi
the campaign. Every dollar of the Mr
Lebanon campaign expense comes out
of C. W. Brown, a fact that can be
easily verified by the cashiers of the
two banks in Elizabeth City who
handle the money.
Camel
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days are up
Man, but he's thirsty!
He'll never go eight days
without a drink again.
He had never tasted Pepsi
Cola when he started that
stuff!
The desert's awfully hot, the
Oases few and far between :
PEPSI-COLA is simply
peaeless to this old one-
hump sailing ship of
the sandy Sahara.
With Pepsi-Cola as an incentive
he could keep going all day.
Why don't you drink Pepsi-Cola,
top, this hot weather, and keep
going all day at full speed?
Drink
Stimulating Revivifying
Sparkling
PEPSI-COLA
It Makes You Scintillate
CHEER UP! YOU'LL SOON
BE LICKING TWOS AGAIN
Cheer up, Mr. Average Cjtizen, on?
thing at least the postage stamp
will soon go down in price
Pork chops and street car fares may
continue to rise, but on July 1. you
will be able once more to put a 2-cent
stamp on a letter to points outside
the city and 1-cent stamp on a post
card.
The postage stamp will be one
of the first every day commodities to
go back to its pre-war price. When
the United States entered the wa
Congress increased postage on letters
to 3-cents and post cards to 2-cii:ts
for delivery outsi4e the city in which
they were mailed.
Before the close of the last session
however, legislation wras enacted pro
viding for a return to the old rates at
the end of this fiscal year.
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McCABE AND SAUNDERS
ON BOARD OF MANAGERS
j GEO. SEYFFERT ON COUNTY
j BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
George P. Seyffert, superintendent of
the Elizabeth City Hosiery Mills, has
j been appointed to succeed Rev. J. M.
Ormond on the Pasquotank County
j Board of Public Welfare. Mr. Ormond
j resigned because his church is about
i to begin building their new house of
i worship and his time will be in demand
j on that project.
J Mr. Seyffert is a student of social
j problems and is better equipped for the
work of the new office of Public Wel
fare than some would suspect. The
Board is now composed of V.' R. Gil-
more, Geo. P. Seyffert and Miss Mar
garet Hollowell.
J. T. McCabe and W. O. Saunders of
Elizabeth City have been appointed
members of the Board of Managers of
the State Normal School at Elizabeth
recent advance in prices along all lines
men virtually jnits this school under
local management for the first time in
its history, a majority of the Board of
Managers residing in this city. The
Board of Managers will find much work
to do the next twelve months in con
nection with expenditure of about $50,
000 in new buildings and improvements
at the State Normal.
POSTMASTER EXAMINATION
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The United States Civil Service
Cpmmission has announced an exami
nation to be held at Edenton, N. C. on
September 24, 1919 -for the position ol
postmaster at Roper.
To be eligible for this examination
an applicant must be a citizen of the
United States, must actually reside
within the delivery of the office and
have so resided at thetime the present
vacancy occurred.
Applicants must have reached theii
twenty-first but not their sixty-fifth
birthday on the date of examination
DIAMOND RUBBER CO. ANNOUNCE
NEW MILEAGE ADJUSTMENT
The Diamond Rubber Co., Inc., of
Akron, O. announces new increased
mileage adjustment to Diamond Tire
users and dealers that is in keeping
with actual results obtained from these
famous tires 6000 miles on fabric
tiresand S000 miles on Diamond Cord
Tires. The new adjustment also ap
plies to every Diamond Tire of future
or past sale, including tires in the
hands of car owners or dealers.
Diamond users and Diamond dealers
have long 'known the big mileage in
Diamond Tires the users own tires.
The Diamond Rubber Co. have marked
up their adjustment to 6000 miles foi
Diamond Fabric Tires and 8000 milet
for Diamond Cord Tires, respectively
merely to measure out a definite share
of the superb mileage that the won
derful strength and endurance Dia
mond Tires have in them as shown
from thousands and thousands of satis
fied users.
KILN-DRIED
Tennessee
ROCKUME
Dr. Thome of Ohio, has well said:- "When the land begins to need lime, it
is a waste of time, energy and money to continue to cultivate it until this
need is supplied; for the economic use of every other fertilizing material, in
cluding manure, depends upon the limg supply.
MASCOT
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L. L. WINDER, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
SALES AGENT
STUDEBAKER DEALERS HERE
EMPLOY A SERVICE EXPERT
The Pasquotank Motor Co., Stude
baker automobile dealers for this terri
tory, have taken an advanced step in
the matter of service that will interest
Studebaker owners. The Pasquotank
Motor Co. has employed WmT.' Swain
a young motor expert, formerly of thf
Studebaker factory force, who will givt
his time exclusively as Supervisor oi
Studebaker Service for this territory
Mr. Swain has just been released from
the U. S. Army where he had served
for nearly a year as an instctor of
airplane motors in the Bureau of Air
craft Production. Mr. Swain's head
quarters will be at the Pasquotank
Motor Co. show rooms opposite the
Southern Hotel, in Elizabeth City.
J. K. DIXON COMMISSIONER
At a recent meeting of the Fisheries
Commission Board in Morehead City
J. K. Dixon, of Trenton. Jones county,
North Carolina, was appointed State
Fisheries Commissioner, succeeding the
late H. L. Gibbs. Mr. Dixon was chief
clerk and assistant commissioner under
Mr. Gibbs' administration and is ac
quainted with the affairs and respon
sibilities that concern his offic.
Telephone. Tattle.
Thieves and beggars have a "cant"
language- of their own. When a burg
lar uses the phrase" "struck by light
ning," he means that he was arrested
by the police whilst engaged on , his
little job, through information com.
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WANTS AN INLET FROM
CURRITUCK TO THE SEA
Editor Independent: -
I have spread out before me a mat
of the eastern part of North Carolina,
and tracing that long narrow coastal
line, or banksline down, we do not find
any outlet to the sea from the Virginia
State line to Oregon Inlet, a distance
of probably sixty miles or more. AVith
Currituck and Albermarle Sound and
the rivers 'that empty into the Albe
marle Sound, all fresh water bodies it
seems to me that in view of the fact
that for several years the big freshets
have virtually ruined the best part of
(the fishing season, that it would prob
ably be the greatest thing that could
happen to northeastern North Carolina
to take the matter up with the Gov
ernment at Washington with the idea
of having an inlet cut at what vould
be the best practical point.
Probably this matter could be start
ed and discussed at the next meetiny
of the General Assembly. I undertand
there will probably be an extra ses
sion which would be better still
As I still look over this map it would
seem possible that an inlet cut thru
Kitty Hawk bay to the sea would be
practicable. I know something of the
conditions existing there.
If there were some way to do this,
would not northeastern North Carolina
be a paradise, almost? Just look at the
large area that would soon be a solid!'
oyster rock, also great shoals of clams,
in addition to the difference in fishing
it would probably make
It would be very interesting to see
what sort of a discussion this would
start. I suppose that every one would
have something to say about it.
flow about it? Let's dig an inlet
and keep it open.
' C. H. SCARBORO,
3607 Washington, Ave.,
. Newport News, Va.
June 16, 1919.
NOTICE TO CITIZENS
CURRITUCK COUNTY
The Board of Education and Board
of Commissioners of Currituck County
met in joint session 1st Monday in June
1919, (as per Instructions of R. F.
Beasley, Commissioner of Public Wel
fare of The State Board of Charities)
to consider the appointing of a Supt.
of Public Welfare and to fix his salary
and expenses, as provided by an act
of the last Legslature.
The following resolution was passed
at the said joint meeting.
Resolved that Both Boards meet in
joint session 1st Monday in July and
at that time make the appointment and
fix the salary and expenses of County
Supt. of Welfare, and in the mean time
give the matter publicity.
Several suggestions have been heard,
relative to combining the office of Supt.
of Welfare work with the off ice of Supt
of Public Instruction and the employing
of a Rural Supervisor of schools to as
sist the County Supt. of Public Instruc
tion. As this matter is of vital intrest both
to The Taxpayer and the patrons of our
Public school system, I feel it my duty
to make this publication, so as to ac
quaint the PUBLIC with the matter,
and to cordially invite every taxpayer
and public school patron ot be presen
at this joint meting of the two Boards
at which time thorough public distus
sion of the question will b had.
Meeting at County Court House 10.30
A. M. Monday, July 7th, 1919. Come
and the strength of your council
W. J. TATE
. Chm. Board Education
cJe20-2t Currituck Co.
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No Wonder.
Mrs. Johling "I don't know what is
the matter with this clock, but It won't
go." Her husband looked at it. then
oiled it, and blew In It with the bel
lows, but it would not go, and he went
to bed. The next morning his wife
said : "Henry, I know what is the mat
ter with the clock." "Well, what?"
asked her husband. "It wants wind
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